Your family ties broken and re – broken and reunited. Thus Love simply means recognising something of yourself in some other person. Let a man be wholly and solely your counterpart and you are all love. Read the article »

You see that spiritual progress and family life as it stands at present are contradictory to each other; they are conflicting. What is done in the church is undone at the house, more than undone perhaps. It is just like Penelopese. She used to wind the thread all day long and when the night came, she used to unwind everything that was wound up. Similarly, all of you wind up your spiritual progress in the churches, and in your sermons and prayers, and all is undone, unwound at home. If matters go on that way, there is no hope. Read the article »

Vedanta wants you to spell things in the right way. Do not misread them; do not misspell them. Read this “God is nowhere,” that is to say, the phenomenon of sin, crime as, “God is now here.” Even in your sins is proved your Divinity, the divinity of your nature. Realize that and the whole world blooms for you a paradise, the whole world is converted into a garden, a heaven.

Realize the true Self within you; like Christ, realize that the father and the son are one. “In the beginning was the word; the word was with God”. Realize it, realize it. The Heaven of heavens is within you. Realize that and wherever you go, the dirtiest water will blush into the sparkling wine for you; every dungeon will be converted into the Heaven of heavens for you. There will not be a single difficulty or trouble for you; the master of all ye become. Read the article »

Vedanta says there is a cause for it, and the cause is within you, it is not without yourself. This thought of freedom in you, this universal thought tells us that there is something in you; and that something in you is your true Self, the real Me, because this freedom you want to have for Me, for the I, the real Self, and for nobody else. There is something in you which is really free, unlimited, unbound. The universality of this idea preaches in unmistakable language that the real Self, the real Atman, is something which is absolutely free. But owing to the same kind of mistake which the ignorant people make in attributing the motion of the earth to the Sun interchanging the attributes through ignorance—we want to have freedom realized for the body, for the mind, for the gross self. Read the article »

“I am the mote in the sunbeam, and I am the burning Sun, Rest here? I whisper the atom, I call to the orb, “Roll on!” I am the blush of the morning, and I am the evening breeze; I am the leaf’s low murmur, the swell of the terrible seas. The lover’s passionate pleading, the maiden’s whispered fears; The warrior, the blade that strikes him, his mother’s heart wrung fear. The rose, her poet nightingale, the songs from the throat that rise, The flint, the sparks, the taper, the moth that about it flies. I am intoxication, grapes, winepress and musk, and wine, The guest, the host, the traveller, the goblet of crystal fine. Read the article »